Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary - Language and Morality in J.l. Austin''s Philosophy

This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin's philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin's philosophical work.

Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view to show that Austin used his most well-known theoretical notions as heuristic tools aimed at debunking the fact/value dichotomy. Additionally, it demonstrates that Austin's continual returns to the ordinary is rooted in a desire to show that our lives in language are complicated and multifaceted. What emerges is an attempt to think with Austin about problems that are central to philosophy today-such as the question about linguistic inheritance, truth, the relationship between a language inherited and morality, and how we are to cope with linguistic elasticity and historicity.

Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Austin's philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.

List of contents

1. Approaching Austin
2. Approaching Language?
3. Lessons from Sense and Sensibilia
4. A Plea for Phenomenology: On Austin’s Method
5. Testimony and Knowledge
6. All the Locutions
7. Our Word is Our Bond

About the author

Niklas Forsberg is Head of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He is the author of Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse (2012).

Summary

This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin’s philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin’s philosophical work.

Product details

• Authors: Niklas Forsberg, Niklas (University of Pardubice Forsberg, Forsberg Niklas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781032107233
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3210723-3
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Literature: history & criticism, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -